So what do you do when everything is going to shit in the big city? You pack your bags, check your head and head to Bolinas. I have been feeling a bit overwhelmed here in Charm City so for the past couple of weeks I have been reading Bill Berkson's Big Sky magazine before I go to sleep in an effort to transport myself into a better mental geography.
I have been thinking a lot lately about what the great magazines of the Mimeo Revolution happen to be and I have to say I really enjoyed the time I spent with Big Sky. A fantastic magazine. And just like C or Fuck You, Big Sky made the jump from magazine to press, publishing several books under the Big Sky imprint.
All the great mimeo publications capture a time and a place. As the Big Bridge feature on Bolinas makes clear, Big Sky clearly fits the bill in that regard.
It just so happens that the Mimeo Mimeo archives are well stocked in Big Sky items. So we are going to spend a weekend in Bolinas. I have to admit that I haven't read any Big Sky titles but the magazines but that is not going to stop me from posting all or nearly all of the Big Sky catalog over the next two days.
Head over to the Cuneiform Press page and maybe we will post more than covers. The World of Leon, Big Sky #7, is already up there. I have to say it was pure pleasure entering the world of Leon on a cold winter day when the water pipes were freezing and the gas lines were leaking. You just have to laugh sometimes. And hanging out with Leon will help you do just that.
JB
MIMEO MIMEO #8: CURATORS' CHOICE features 16 bibliophiles on 6 highlights from their personal or institutional collections. Contributors include Steve Clay, Wendy Burk, Tony White, Brian Cassidy, Thurston Moore, J.A. Lee, Michelle Strizever, Adam Davis, Michael Basinski, Joseph Newland, Alastair Johnston, Tate Shaw, Michael Kasper, Steve Woodall, Molly Schwartzberg, Nancy Kuhl, James Maynard, and the Utah posse (Becky Thomas, Marnie Powers-Torrey, Craig Dworkin, Emily Tipps, Luise Poulton, & David Wolske)
MIMEO MIMEO #7: THE LEWIS WARSH ISSUE is the first magazine ever devoted in its entirety to poet, novelist, publisher, teacher, and collage artist Lewis Warsh. Warsh was born in 1944 in the Bronx, co-founded Angel Hair Magazine and Books with Anne Waldman in 1966, and went on to co-found United Artists Magazine and Books with Bernadette Mayer in 1977. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, the Director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn, and as you’ll soon discover, so much more. Includes an introduction by Daniel Kane, an interview conducted by Steve Clay, 10 new stories, 5 new poems, dozens of photographs and collages, and an anecdotal bibliography.
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MIMEO MIMEO #6: THE POETRY ISSUE is devoted to new work by eight poets who have consistently composed quality writing that has influenced and inspired generations since the golden era of the mimeo revolution. Contributors include Bill Berkson, John Godfrey, Ted Greenwald, Joanne Kyger, Kit Robinson, Rosmarie Waldrop, Lewis Warsh, and Geoffrey Young. Cover art by George Schneeman.
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MIMEO MIMEO #3: THE DANNY SNELSON ISSUE examines the relationship between structuralism and the poetries of the mimeo era by presenting a detailed analysis of Form (a Cambridge-UK magazine published in 1966) and Alcheringa (a journal published by Boston University in 1975), two exemplary gatherings that illuminate the historical, material and social circumstances under which theory informed art (and vice versa) in the early works of some of today's most celebrated experimental writers. Also includes a special insert, The Infernal Method, written, designed and printed by Aaron Cohick (NewLights Press).
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MIMEO MIMEO #2: features Emily McVarish on her artist's book Flicker; James Maynard on poet Robert Duncan's early experiences as an editor and typesetter; Derek Beaulieu on the relationship between the influential Canadian poetry journal Tish and Black Mountain College; and an extensive interview with Australian poet and typographer Alan Loney conducted by Kyle Schlesinger. Cover is by Emily McVarish.
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